Staff OpenTelemetry Python Instrumentation Engineer Remote

Devconnectplatform; Ireland; Remote; EUR 121,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Remote-first organization

Job summary

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, with a focus on AI-driven workflows. You will contribute to upstream OpenTelemetry, collaborate with maintainers, and optimize for performance in production environments.

As a remote-first, globally distributed team, you will work across languages and platforms, mentor others, and help shape Grafana Cloud observability offerings while contributing to open-source projects and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and debugging production software.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and instrumenting AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Develop improvements to the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries.
• Build Python instrumentation for AI agents, including async code paths.
• Improve SDK performance via profiling and benchmarks; balance runtime overhead and maintainability.
• Contribute to open-source communities and OpenTelemetry conventions.
• Lead and mentor teammates, and shape technical direction for the project.

Skills

Python

OpenTelemetry

Open Source

Async/await

AI

Remote collaboration

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Rust

Job description

Grafana Labs is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the OpenTelemetry Python SDK and instrumentation libraries, with a focus on AI-driven workflows. You will contribute to upstream OpenTelemetry, collaborate with maintainers, and optimize for performance in production environments.

As a remote-first, globally distributed team, you will work across languages and platforms, mentor others, and help shape Grafana Cloud observability offerings while contributing to open-source projects and